‘Stay Alert’ guidance ‘much less clear’ than ‘Stay Home’

I much enjoyed reading Katy Sherman’s article ‘Why grazing can be amazing for conservation’ (Observer, May 7) until I read her closing words: “So if you are out and about getting your daily exercise in the South Downs National Park watch out for our helpful grazing friends.”

I take my helpful daily exercise by ‘grazing’ at home and walking alone in my immediate local neighbourhood.

On the same page Richard Williamson describes being kept company in solitary isolation by a blackbird with a ‘fruity warble’.

People with gardens or within easy walking distance of open spaces are, of course, very lucky.

Chichester Observer reporter Sam Dixon-French reminds West Sussex motorists to ‘Only travel if absolutely necessary’ to avoid putting ‘the emergency and care services under unnecessary extra pressure’.

It is still incumbent on motorists to adhere to government guidelines by avoiding unnecessary travel.

Government advice to just ‘Stay Alert’ is now, unfortunately, much less clear than ‘Stay at Home’.

Going into lockdown was far too slow. And now going ‘out’ is much too fast.

I’m sure I’m not alone in being thoroughly perplexed.

The pandemic is not over until it is over.